Googles Android not in the Linux kernel (forked)
Posted: 12 Aug 2010, 12:32
Google forked Android and did not put it in the Linux kernel. This is defended by Red Hat’s Matthew Garrett, they also do patches for their customers that do not find its way into the kernel.
“It’s not realistic to do all patches [to a shipping product] upstream,” he told his audience. “I’d prefer the world to not be that way but [it is].”
The “partial forking” is disappointing but much better than not having any open source mobile platform to compete against Apple’s iPhone, the Red Hat executive said.
Google provided Android code to the Linux kernel team in 2008 and improved and refined the code twice before it was pulled from the Linux kernel allegedly due to lack of participation by Google.
The Kernel is becoming quite commercial these days. That is fine, but if most major functions will be outside the kernel in the future then we have a problem!
Open source will probably die without the participation of the giants. Well there is always IBM I guess.
Quality products with a community strategy.
“It’s not realistic to do all patches [to a shipping product] upstream,” he told his audience. “I’d prefer the world to not be that way but [it is].”
The “partial forking” is disappointing but much better than not having any open source mobile platform to compete against Apple’s iPhone, the Red Hat executive said.
Google provided Android code to the Linux kernel team in 2008 and improved and refined the code twice before it was pulled from the Linux kernel allegedly due to lack of participation by Google.
The Kernel is becoming quite commercial these days. That is fine, but if most major functions will be outside the kernel in the future then we have a problem!
Open source will probably die without the participation of the giants. Well there is always IBM I guess.
Quality products with a community strategy.